Gothic elements are apparent in the elegant wooden churches that dot the Transylvanian countryside. Eighteenth-century village craftsmen combined the image of the peasant house with steep roofs and tall spires.

The Gothic style continued strong in the Low Countries throughout the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, inflecting the revived Classical architecture to so great an extent that it retained a peculiar, hybrid quality. But no significant contribution was made to the Gothic movement until the Dutch architect Petrus Josephus Hubertus Cuypers, an ardent and painstaking interpreter of the ideas of Viollet-le-Duc, began work. The career of ... (100 of 79,896 words)